The German Masters

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Movie
Original title The German Masters
The Deutschmeister Logo 001.svg
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ernst Marischka
script Ernst Marischka,
Gustav Holm (idea)
production Erma-Filmproduktion GmbH, Vienna (Ernst Marischka)
music Robert Stolz ,
Wilhelm August Jurek
camera Bruno Mondi
cut Alfred Srp
occupation

Die Deutschmeister is a Viennese film by Ernst Marischka from 1955 with Romy Schneider and Magda Schneider in the leading roles as well as Gretl Schörg , Susi Nicoletti , Adrienne Gessner , Hans Moser , Paul Hörbiger and Siegfried Breuer Jr. In a leading role, who tells the origin of the Deutschmeister regimental march by Wilhelm August Jurek .

The premiere of the film was on August 11, 1955 in the Lichtburg in Essen. The movie poster advertised with the slogan: "A color film for everyone who enjoys life."

action

Stanzi Hübner goes to Vienna to visit her aunt Therese. By chance she gets into a costume ball and attracts the attention of Baron Zorndorff, who thinks she is a countess . She only arrives late at her aunt's, who runs a bakery. The young military musician Willi Jurek, a German master, discovers her during a parade of the castle music , who then shyly visits her in her aunt's shop.

In the meantime, Baron Zorndorff is also looking for the supposed countess. He gets to know a real countess who finally turns out to be just right for him. Stanzi's aunt also has an admirer: it is the Hofwirt who brings the emperor the tasty pretzel sticks from the bakery. However, a marriage between him and Therese Huebner would not be befitting.

Because although Jurek has a great public success with a new march composition, threatens to become but punished by unauthorized visit to a pub together with the whole unit takes Stanzi: You hid the sheet music for German champions march in one of the Salzstangerln with which her aunt Emperor Franz Joseph supplies .

This audacity initially only means that Stanzi's aunt is no longer allowed to deliver salt sticks to the emperor. At an audience she was granted, Stanzi was finally able to explain the truth to the benevolent emperor. He now makes her aunt officially purveyor to the court , which means that she is befitting and can marry Hofrat Hofwirt.

Jurek also receives due recognition at a parade in front of the Austrian and German emperors . He and Stanzi are brought before the two emperors, who are full of praise for his march. Nothing stands in the way of Stanzi's happiness with her Willi.

production

The film was made in the studios of Wien-Film Ges. MbH in Vienna-Sievering, the outdoor shots were made in Vienna and the surrounding area as well as in Salzburg. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff was responsible for the film construction, and Gerdago and Leo Bei for the costumes .

Film music

Songs

  • Romy Schneider: When the birds make music
  • Hans Moser, Magda Schneider: I don't care
  • Gretl Schörg: The trees in the Prater are blooming again ; In spring in the moonlight in the Prater in Vienna
  • Fritz Imhoff, Heinz Conrads: German master regimental march
  • Choir: spring parade

Marches

  • High and German champions march by Dominik Ertl
  • German master regimental march by Wilhelm August Jurek
  • Bruckerlager Marsch and Hoch Habsburg by Johann Nepomuk Král (excerpts)

background

As early as 1934 Ernst Marischka had provided the script for Géza von Bolváry's film Spring Parade for the creation of the Deutschmeister March. Paul Hörbiger also played Emperor Franz Joseph I. Franziska Gaal was cast in the role that Romy Schneider is now playing and Romy's father Wolf Albach-Retty played the corporal Wilhelm August Jurek. Twenty years later, Marischka staged his colorful remake . He himself briefly walks through the picture as a customer of the chaotic hairdresser Swoboda (Hans Moser).

According to the information from the Statistical Office of the City of Vienna in the booklet "Communications from Statistics and Administration of the City of Vienna", where 1,000 films were recorded in 107 Vienna cinemas, Die Deutschmeister was ranked second among the most successful films in 1955 behind the US American production Three coins in the well .

The text sung by Fritz Imhoff and Heinz Conrads in the film on the trio of the Deutschmeister regimental march does not largely correspond to the much more combative original, but has been adapted to the more romantic tone of the film.

publication

The film opened in the Federal Republic of Germany on August 11, 1955. The first screening of the film in Austria took place on September 21, 1955 in Vienna. It was published in Denmark in January 1956, Portugal in June 1957, Sweden in November 1957, Finland in December 1957 and Mexico in May 1961. The film was also released in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Studiocanal first released the film on DVD on October 20, 2006. The film is also part of the DVD "Romy Schneider - Your Youth Years" released by Kinowelt Home Entertainment on November 30, 2007. It is also contained in the DVD collection "A reunion with ... Romy Schneider" published by Studiocanal on November 7, 2008 and in the box "The most beautiful music films of the 50s" published by Kinowelt on February 3, 2011, as well as that of Studiocanal on "Romy Schneider Edition" published on May 16, 2012. On September 28, 2018, Alive - Vertrieb und Marketing released a DVD of the film as part of the "Film Jewels" series.

criticism

The Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon describes Die Deutschmeister as a “charming story with a lot of spirit, humor and colorful kuk glory”.

The lexicon of international film evaluates: “Pleasant, folk film in the operetta-like atmosphere of old Vienna”.

The Heyne Film Lexicon (1996) sees the film as "one of the countless pussies about old Vienna that motivated Romy Schneider to seek their salvation in flight".

The evangelical film observer comes to the assessment that the film is "sweetly kitsched in the Viennese way", but suitable as "entertainment without depth" from 16 onwards.

Kino.de pointed out that G. v. Bolváryfilmedthis script by Ernst Marischka ( ' Sissi ' )with the 'Spring Parade' as early as 1934, which is now again with Romy Schneider and Siegfried Breuer jr. was staged. It goes on: “In addition to Hans Moser and Paul Hörbiger, Romy's mother, Magda Schneider, is also involved in a thoroughly successful film about the German Masters March. The music for this forerunner of the 'Sissi' series by the duo Marischka / Schneider comes from Robert Stolz. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Deutschmeister movie poster
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 492.
  3. ↑ Spring Parade . A film from Austria-Hungary's past. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on November 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ "Vienna 1956: Reports from June 1956 - 5.6.1956: The Viennese cinemas and their visitors - An analysis by the Statistical Office of the City of Vienna"
  5. ↑ See original text here: Text of the Deutschmeister regimental march at Volksliederarchiv
  6. ↑ Die Deutschmeister Fig. DVD case from Kinowelt
  7. ↑ Romy Schneider - Your Adolescent Years Ill. DVD case from Kinowelt
  8. ↑ A reunion with ... Romy Schneider Fig. DVD case from Kinowelt
  9. ↑ The most beautiful music films of the 50s Fig. DVD case from Kinowelt
  10. ↑ Die Deutschmeister Fig. DVD case Romy Schneider Edition by Studiocanal
  11. ↑ Die Deutschmeister Fig. DVD case film jewels
  12. ↑ The German Masters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 1, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  13. ^ "Die Deutschmeister", review No. 723/1955 , see page epd film
  14. ↑ Die Deutschmeister - Nostalgic Romance by Ernst Marischka with Romy Schneider see page kino.de. Retrieved May 2, 2019.